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The ONE Hidden Factor Controlling Your Success
Matt Karamazov
March 24, 2024
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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.
This one hidden factor is controlling your success, like a thermostat:
“Whatever your self-concept, your habit of thinking about money, or any other area of performance, very soon becomes your ‘comfort zone.’
Your comfort zone then becomes your greatest single obstacle to improved performance.
Once you get into a comfort zone in any area, you will struggle unconsciously to remain in that comfort zone, even though it may be vastly below what you are truly capable of achieving in that area.”
The above quote is from Million Dollar Habits, by Brian Tracy, but it's the same idea that has been converged upon by dozens and dozens of the most influential human potential thought leaders in the 20th century:
You literally CANNOT outperform the mental self-image you have of yourself, or what you believe to be true about your abilities and the limits of your potential.
Your self-image controls your success like a thermostat, handicapping your results when you think poorly of yourself.
Blowing the lid off your success when you think highly of yourself and believe in yourself.
You habituate - get comfortable with - where you are in your life, and thus you get stuck.
It's the work of a lifetime to keep pushing raising that inner thermostat (or self-image, self-concept, etc.) and keep reaching for more.
Believe you're the kind of person who can get a six-pack, and your odds of making it happen go up tremendously.
Believe you're the kind of person who will always struggle with debt, you'll never get your head above water.
These internal conditioning programs are POWERFUL, and they can't be changed overnight. But they CAN be changed. And the level of success you reach depends on whether or not you change it.
As always, at the bottom of this email I’ll lay out everything I did today to move closer to my Ultimate Vision. This is to keep me accountable and to show you that I’m working as hard as I’m encouraging you to work…
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Woke Up: 11:00AM
Sleep Quality: 67%
Pages Read: 94
Workout: Rest Day
Work Completed:
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Outline 2 Medium Articles
Posted 1x on Instagram
Posted 4x on Twitter
Posted 3x on Threads
Posted 2x on LinkedIn
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Posted 1x to YouTube Community Tab
Worked on Author Marketing Sales Page
Business Networking Call with Author Partner
Recorded 2 YouTube Videos and 1 Video Sales Letter
Scripted Some New YouTube + Backend Videos
Prepared for My Next Podcast Interview
Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow
Very productive day today, despite not getting a great night’s sleep the night before. Not going to push it though. I’m going to bed very, very soon, and I’m going to wake up refreshed tomorrow and ready to get after it.
With that in mind, I’ll talk to you tomorrow!
All the best,
Matt Karamazov
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